A short drive from Ocean City gives way to the beautiful and serene offerings of the Rum Point Seaside Golf Links, an 18 hole championship quality golf course located in Berlin, Maryland. 

Designed by P.B. and Pete Dye, Rum Pointe opened in 1997 and is the only Ocean City course to offer bent-grass from tee to green. Nestled at the lands end overlooking Sinepuxent Bay and Assateague Island, the course provides views of the bay on no fewer than 17 holes with several holes fronting the bay.

Built largely on flat ground, Rum Pointe is best described as a hybrid design. An open links layout with lush parkland conditions. This unique feel provides an ideal environment for the perfect round of golf.

Like all great designs, good shots are rewarded and errant shots are punished. Your ability to get the ball to the greens in regulation depends upon your accuracy off the tee to hit fairways. Even though the first cut of rough is manageable, the second cut can and will punish.

Water in the form of ponds comes into play on sixteen holes. Both the front and back nine weave inland then back to the bay on the finishing holes. Both the 9th and 18th holes mirror the same lake guarding the left and right side of each fairway respectively.

Good course management skills are required as well as an ability to hit consistent shots due to the ever preset wind coming off the bay.

The wind can make a long par 5 reachable in two or make a Par 4 difficult to reach in two. Rum Pointe gives ample opportunity to score yet at the same time demands your respect and ability to settle for par.

Incorporated throughout the course are sod mounds and sand bunkers. These greatly enhance the scenic marshland feel. It seems each water hazard has an accompanying bunker or group of bunkers guarding the opposite side of the fairway or green.

Even though some bail-out areas exist there are many contrasting design elements to keep the golfer thinking. Negotiating the constraints and allowable limits of the course is a constant test.

Golf in Ocean City doesn't get any better than the perfect blend of natural beauty and challenge abound at Rum Pointe!

Amigos Favorite Hole: More than half of the holes at Rum Pointe could easily be considered our favorite. But when considering all of the factors that make up ‘a favorite’; challenge, playability, risk-reward, beauty, surroundings, etc, our favorite is the long 540-yard par 5 No. 8.

This slight dogleg offers beautiful views of Assawoman Bay and requires three quality shots to reach the green.

Depending on the wind, the hole is not normally reachable in two. With the bay on the left and a couple of bunkers down the right side of the fairway most will likely elect to play the hole with a three shot approach. The green is guarded by a bunker on the left front with Dye design calling card rail road ties lining the front slope.

Depending on pin placement a good wedge shot to the green will yield a run at birdie. But even a two putt ending resulting in a par is a good score on this hole.